Trooper shortage: Solutions and obstacles

11:51 PM,
Feb. 12, 2014

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The Clarion-Ledger

Obstacle: Support and funding for a trooper school. The last trooper school, held in 2011, graduated 51 of 140 candidates, and MHP officials say they need a much larger class than that to begin to address the shortage on the road. MHP officials said they need considerable public and legislative support to get the $6.9 million they need to fund the school.